Voting by Education in 2008
Traditionally, the Republican Party has been made up of the elite, while the Democratic Party has received the votes of common people. The 2008 election, however, pitted military veteran John McCain against Harvard law graduate (and University of Chicago lecturer) Barack Obama. And, especially after the bitter Hillary Clinton/Obama primary election campaign, there was interest in the political attitudes of voters with different levels of education. We decided to go beyond raw crosstabs and look at vote by education, age, and ethnicity.
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